What I’m Working On

“So….,” Ben Simon paused, eyebrow raised, “what is it exactly that you do?”

He was not the first person to ask that this week, so I decided it might be worthwhile to talk a little bit about what I’m working on, especially in the context of the grand Mozilla Foundation vision that I blogged about yesterday.

Last week at the all-hands we had to come up with some first-half-of-year goals, and the education group brainstormed some full-year goals for ourselves. Based on these, here are some of the things I’m going to be thinking about in the months to come:

Finalize and test the first set of web literacy skills

Help our existing offerings integrate those skills

Identify where our offerings fall short in skills we believe people should learn

Develop scaffolding/activation strategy for non-Mofo instructors

Develop a community for non-Mofo instructors to share best practices for teaching these skills (“hackable templates”), etc.

Develop a community for the learners (makers)

Help build a compelling story for why people (potential makers and instructors) should care

Develop a set of metrics for measuring success. And measure it. Iterate to improve.